New Lawsuit Challenges Efforts To Stamp Out African-American Vote In NC

North Carolina is ‘ground zero in the intentional, surgical efforts by Republicans to suppress the voice of voters’

Andrea Germanos
作者 Andrea Germanos
President Barack Obama casts his ballot during early voting at the Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center in Chicago, Ill., Oct. 25, 2012. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

With just over a week to go before Election Day, the North Carolina NAACP on Monday filed a lawsuit to stop what it describes as a Republican-led effort to snuff out the African-American vote. "This is our Selma and we will not back down and allow this suppression to continue," said Rev. William Barber II, president of the

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Donald Trump Calls For ‘Nationwide Stop-And-Frisk’

‘The idea of creating a national stop-and-frisk policy is the equivalent of advancing martial law and is beyond the constitutional power of the presidency’

Nika Knight
作者 Nika Knight
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump pauses during while speaking at a rally in Millington, Tenn. Tough talk about torture is a guaranteed applause line for Donald Trump on the GOP presidential stump. Trump has repeatedly advocated waterboarding, an enhanced interrogation technique that simulates the feeling of drowning. (AP/Andrew Harnik)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHEqvgHwcP4 As the nation reels from two recent fatal police shootings of black men, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Wednesday called for cities nationwide to adopt "stop-and-frisk"—a widely condemned police practice that New York City was forced to abandon after a federal judge struck it

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50 Years After Harlem Riot, Police Brutality Still A Concern

We could learn a lot by examining cases of police brutality and abuses of power, but most instances aren’t even investigated or reported.

Frederick Reese
作者 Frederick Reese
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On July 16, 1964, a white off-duty New York City police lieutenant fatally shot a black ninth-grader in Harlem on allegations that the teenager had a knife and was lunging at the officer. While the details of exactly what happened that day are still hotly contested and debated, it would seem that the event was racially motivated. It triggered a

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AIDS Remains An Epidemic In the US, Especially For African Americans

HIV/AIDS persists as an epidemic, as the rate of new infections in the U.S. stands at 50,000 – roughly the same levels held for more than a decade.

Frederick Reese
作者 Frederick Reese

The first diagnosed case of a strange immunodeficiency disease emerged in the United States in June 1981. Since then, nearly 1.8 million Americans have contracted what has been called the scourge of the 20th century -- the Human Immunodeficiency Virus, and its resulting disease, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome. Over 650,000 have died from

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Court Ruling Revives Discussion On Who Can Use The N-Word

A federal jury has decided that even among members of the Black community, there is no acceptable time to use the word.

Katie Rucke
作者 Katie Rucke

The use of the N-word by the African American community has been a contentious issue for years after the word became commonly used in music and throughout African American communities. But last week a federal jury decided that even among African American community members, there is no acceptable time to use the word. The jury awarded $30,000 in

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From A March To A Crawl: The 50th Anniversary Of The I Have A Dream Speech

Could Dr. King have imagined that although infant mortality has declined over time for both Blacks and Whites, the gap between the races is wider today than it was in 1950?

Edward Rhymes
作者 Edward Rhymes
This photo shows the Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Mathew Ahmann in a crowd. (Photo from the National Archives and Records Administration)

In this writing, excerpts from Dr. Martin Luther King’s I Have Dream speech will be used to contrast his words to where Blacks in America find themselves today. “Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of

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